Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-26
DR.. Talmage breaches on the Temptation
and Sacrifice of Christ.
Ye Are Bought With a Price and the Pay
ment is Made in Installments.
The Temptation Of the Saviour on the
Mount by Satin.

DR.. Talmage's sermon this morning
was 1.-The Ransomed,'' and his text
was 81 Corinthians, CHI. vi, V 20:
aye are bought with a price"
Your friend takes you through his
valuable house. You examine the
arches, the ~fresco, the grass-plots, the
fish-ponds, the Conservatives, the
parks of deer, and you say within
yourself, or you say aloud: What
did all this costP" You see costly APP
parel. or you see a high-mettied span
OF horses harnessed with silver and
gold, and you begin to make an esti-
mate of the value. The man who owns
a large estate cannot instantly tell you
what ii is all worth. He says: Il will
estimate SO much for the house, so
much for the furniture, so much
for laying out the grounds,
so much for the stock. so
much for the barn, so much for the
equipage-adding up. in al making
this aggregate
Well, my friends, | hear so much
about u mansion in heaven, about its
furniture and the grand surroundings,
that | want to know how much it is
all worth, and what has actually been
paid for it. l cannot complete in a
month or Il year the magnificent calcu-
%lation; but before | get through to-day
| hope to give you the figures.
''Ge are bought with a price"
With some friends | went into Lon
don tower to look at the crown jewel,
of England. We walked around,
caught n glimpse Of them, and being
in the procession were compelled to
pass out. wish that to-day | could
take this audience into the tower of
Gods mercy and strength, that you
might walk around just once, at least,
and see the crown Jewels of eternity
behold their brilliance and estimate
their value. ..Ye are bought with a
price, Now. if you have a large
amount Of money to pay. you do not
pay it all at once but by installments
so much the lst of January, so much
the LIST of April, SO much the lst OF
July, so much the 1st of October, until
he entire amount is paid. And I have
to tell this audience that You have
been bought with a price and that
that price was paid in different install,
ments.
The first installment paid for the
clearance of our souls, was the ignom'
nous birth of Christ in Bethlehem.
Though we may never be carefully
looked after afterward, our advent into
the world is carefully guarded. We
come into the world amid kindly at
tentions. Privacy and silence are
afforded when God launches an immor.
soul into the world. Even the
toughest of men know enough to stanC
ack But | have to tell you that in
village on the side of the hill there
was a very bedlaln OF uproar wher
Jesus was born. In a village capable
Q accommodating only a few hundred
people, many thousand people were
crowded; and amid hostlers and mule
teers, and camel drivers yelling az
stuAp d beasts of burden. the Messiah
appeared. No silence. No privacy,
A better adapted place hath the
in the eyre - hath
tn whelp in the lions lair. The ex.
CT heaven lieth down upon the straw.
The frs night out from the palace of
heaven spent n an clubhouse. One
lour after laying aside The robes of
eaven dressed in a wrapper of coarse
linen. One would have supposed that
SnTlSl WOulu nave Hldue Il more grad
ual descent, coming from heaven first
o a half way world of great magni-
ude, then to CAESARS palace, then to a
erchant's castle in Galilee, then to a
r ivate home in Bethany then to a fish
man hut, and asst of all to the
able. No, 1t was one hap from the
p to the bottom.
Let us open the door of the cara
vansary in Bethlehem aud drive away
the camels. Press on through the
group of idlers and loungers. What,
Oh Mary, no lightp mo light" she
says. .'save that which comes through
the door" What, Mary, no food?'
None" she says. ''only that which is
brought in the sack" Let the Bethle-
hem woman who has come in here
with kindly affection put back the o V
ering from the babe that we may look
upon it. Look! look! Uncover your
head. Let us kneel. Let all voices be
hushed, Son of Mary. Son of God Z!
Child of a day, monarch of eternity !
In that eye the glance of a God. On
Impotence sheathed in that babes arm.
That voi,,o to no N eI from the